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Arts Research Compilation
A collection of citations from arts education research articles, which are sorted by topics pertinent to arts education. Its purpose is to organize and keep track of the vast amount of information found in arts education research articles, with particular attention paid to the outcomes of the arts in education.

Arts Education Partnership articles

A list of publications by the Arts Education Partnership, many of which are found online as pdfs or can be purchased as well.

Education Commission of the States Arts Education resource page

Including the Governer's Commission Report and other resourses for administrators and advocates.

Keep Arts in Schools resource page

A list of articles and resources for parents and advocates of the arts.

National Endowment for the Arts articles

A list of publications by the National Endowment for the Arts, which can be obtained in pdf or purchased as a hard copy.

Project Zero 

A long term project at Harvard with muliple reseach projects aimed at understanding and enhancing learning, thinking, and creativity.

Newspaper and Magazine Articles

Book Tackles Old Debate: Role of Art in Schools by Robin Pogrebin August 4, 2007

The publishers of a convtroversial study publish a book defending their thesis and defending arts education should be taught of its own merits and not because it raises test scores.

Teaching's an Art in Challenging Times by Mike Leidemann Honolulu Advisor May 21, 2007

An article highlighting an elementary school focused on intergrating the arts.

Stronger, Faster, Smarter by Mary Carmichael Newsweek March 26, 2007

Investigating the link between exercise and intelligence--the dumb jock stereotype might not be as plausible as it seems.

The Trouble With Boys by Peg Tyre Newsweek Jan. 30, 2006

This articles investigates the various problems facing boys in the current school system.

The Impoverishment of American Culture by Dana Gioia
guest editorial from Journal of Singing, September/October 2008
Volume 65, No. 1, pp. 11–13
http://nwacda.org/news-com-gioia-4-3-09.html
When virtually all of a culture’s celebrated figures are in sports or entertainment, how few possible role models we offer the young. There are so many other ways to lead a successful and meaningful life that are not denominated by money or fame. Adult life begins in a child’s imagination, and we’ve relinquished that imagination to the marketplace.

Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement
http://www.nasaa-arts.org/publications/critical-evidence.shtml
Critical Evidence updates and expands on the case made for arts education in NASAA's earlier collaboration with the Arts in Education Partnership, Eloquent Evidence: Arts at the Core of Learning, originally published in 1995. "Ten year's after its release," observes Critical Evidence author Sandra S. Ruppert, "the evidence is even more eloquent, and the need to demonstrate the link between the arts and student achievement has grown more critical." 2006, 20 pages.

The Arts Make a Difference by Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond
Educational Leadership Feb2006/Vol.63/Num 5
Helping Struggling Students pp 60-64
It's time to stop thinking about the arts as fluff. They make schools better places to learn, and they raise student acheivement. 

Research Publications

Fine Arts research brief
www.principalspartnership.com

A research brief exploring the benefits of a fine arts education.

What Can Education Learn from the Arts about the Practice of Education?
Elliot W. Eisner International Journal of Education & the Arts, 5(4). October 14, 2004.
http://ijea.asu.edu/v5n4/
An article by Elliot Eisner, one of the leading researchers in education. Downloaded as a pdf.

Opportunities to Learn in America's Elementary Classrooms.

Robert C. Pianta, Jay Belsky, Renate Houts, Fred Morrison. Science 30 March 2007: Vol. 315. no. 5820, pp. 1795 - 1796. 
A study following more than 1000 American children enrolled in more than 2500 classrooms measuring the quality of the lessons they received. It found that despite the increased focus on proper accreditation most students do not receive consistent high quality education from year to year.